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Along the Hudson Nonfiction A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York Liana Finck Fiction A Hundred Summers Beatriz Williams Fiction Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence: A Novel David Samuel Levinson Nonfiction Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life Michael Greenberg Fiction Cascade Maryanne OHara Fiction City of God: A Novel of Passion and Wonder in Old New York Beverly Swerling Fiction City of Promise Beverly Swerling Nonfiction Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City Robert W. Snyder Fiction Crossing the Hudson Peter Stephan Jungk; David Dollenmayer, trans. Fiction Dictation: A Quartet Cynthia Ozick Nonfiction Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York Robin Shulman Fiction Fathers and Daughters Benjamin Markovits Fiction Funny Boys Warren Adler Nonfiction Growing Up At Grossinger's Tania Grossinger Fiction Heir to the Glimmering World Cynthia Ozick Nonfiction Helluva Town: The Story of New York City During World War II Richard Goldstein Fiction In Sunlight and in Shadow Mark Helprin Nonfiction Inventing Great Neck-Jewish Identity and the American Dream Judith S. Goldstein Nonfiction Is Diss a System?: A Milt Gross Comic Reader Milt Gross: Ari Y. Kelman, ed. Nonfiction Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller Tracy Daugherty Fiction Letters in the Attic Bonnie Shimko Nonfiction Letting It Go Miriam Katin Fiction Lost in Yonkers Neil Simon Fiction Love Bomb Lisa Zeidner Fiction May We Be Forgiven A.M. Homes Nonfiction Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance Carla Kaplan Nonfiction My Fathers' Houses: Memoir of a Family Steven V. Roberts Fiction Nemesis Philip Roth Fiction One More Year Sana Krasikov Nonfiction Please Excuse My Daughter Julie Klam Nonfiction Recovering "Yiddishland": Threshold Moments in American Literature Merle L. Bachman Nonfiction Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen David Sax Fiction Shadows on the Hudson Isaac Bashevis Singer Poetry Steerage Bert Stern Nonfiction The Astor Orphan: A Memior Alexandra Aldrich Children's The Blood Lie Shirley Reva Vernick Nonfiction The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World Joshua Prager Fiction The Empress of Weehawken Irene Dische Nonfiction The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World George Prochnik Nonfiction The Jersey Sting Ted Sherman and Josh Margolin Fiction The Man From Beyond Gabriel Brownstein Fiction The Mothers: A Novel Jennifer Gilmore Fiction The Museum of Extraordinary Things Alice Hoffman Fiction The Pawnbroker Edward Lewis Wallant Fiction The Sweet Relief of Missing Children: A Novel Sarah Braunstein Fiction This Beautiful Life Helen Schulman Fiction Witz Joshua Cohen
Nonfiction Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York Robin Shulman
Nonfiction Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen David Sax
Nonfiction The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World Joshua Prager